Date: 10/18/2009

Number: 1

between the hours, central time, of 3pm to approx 5:30 pm, saw literally thousands of snouts, very VERY high up, lightly flapping but mostly wind tossed. GORGEOUS mastery. High up, I'd see one, then suddenly a dozen or two dozen would just "appear" and many seemed to be chasing each other a bit.
they were all heading north West, oddly. I thought they'd be heading south towards Mexico. Called several friends, family in town and they did NOT see this massive move of butterflies. There are some woods nearby so maybe they were all heading to a roosting area?

Editor's Note: As reported by the Statesman.com website, "About every decade or so there’s an outbreak of snouts in Central Texas, according to Mike Quinn, president of the Austin Butterfly Forum. 'The weather pattern triggers these outbreaks — the drought followed by heavy rains,' said Quinn, who has compiled a site dedicated to the butterfly."

http://texasento.net/snout.htm

san antonio, TX

Latitude: 29.5 Longitude: -98.5

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